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Egypt police dump opposition leader in suburbs

Egyptian police took the 70-year-old leader of the opposition Kefaya movement from a protest in central Cairo on Thursday and dumped him in a desert suburb about 20 km (12 miles) out of town, he said...

2 Egyptian Policemen Convicted of Sodomising Suspect

Egyptian public prosecution charged two policemen with sodomising a suspect in a drugs case in the Nile Delta and are investigating a third officer suspected of taking part, prosecution sources said on Sunday, ..

Egypt tycoon plans new TV stations against radicals

Nov 6 (Reuters) - Egyptian billionaire and telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris plans to launch new television channels to counter what he describes as increasing social and religious conservatism in the Arab Muslim country...

Egyptian police detain 13 Brotherhood students

Egyptian authorities detained 13 students affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most powerful opposition group, after clashes with security men at a university campus on Wednesday, Brotherhood sources said...

Egyptian activist sees liberals abandoned by US

A prominent Egyptian human rights activist said waning U.S. pressure for democracy in Egypt has left liberals there cornered between an autocratic government and Islamists, with no prospect for change soon...

US democracy push makes Middle East liberals cringe

The United States sees itself as a beacon for democratic values, but Iranian and Arab reformers say its policies in the Middle East too frequently belie its ideals, making U.S. support for their cause a damaging liability...

Egypt dissident wants aid conditional on reform

Sociologist Saadeddin Ibrahim said he was lobbying Washington and the European Union to demand progress toward more judicial independence, greater media and civil society freedoms, and internationally supervised elections in exchange for aid...

Egypt’s Mubarak is in good health, first lady says

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is in good health, his wife Suzanne Mubarak said, seeking to end speculation in the Egyptian media the 79-year-old ruler may be seriously ill...

Amnesty says Jailed Egypt Islamist leader in poor health

A jailed Egyptian Islamist who is third in command of the Muslim Brotherhood suffers from "serious health conditions" and urgently needs medical treatment, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Friday...

U.S. democracy agenda in Mideast closed, activists say

A Middle East tour by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has confirmed to democracy activists in the Middle East what they had long suspected -- the United States has lost interest in democracy for Arabs. ..

Mubarak set to win Egypt poll, critics cry foul

CAIRO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - President Hosni Mubarak is widely expected to win Egypt’s first multi-candidate presidential election on Wednesday, but his critics are crying foul even before voting begins...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood unshaken by crackdown

A crackdown on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has put the movement center stage as the government yields to demands for reform, but the conflict between the state and the Islamists is unlikely to escalate, analysts say...

Egyptian Islamists hit streets

CAIRO, (UPI) When the banned Muslim Brotherhood organizes a campaign march here, it leaves very little to chance. ..